Ian Challis

Dad. Husband. Ex sunday morning football manager! Hammer. Boxing fan. Essex & England cricket. 3 X marathon distance runner. 2 Ultra Marathons, 100km done!

[Ian Challis @IanChallis]

@AjayJadeja171 Are you deliberately ignoring the atmospheric conditions. This wasn't about the ball spinning at right angles, it was seaming but the setting because of the overhead conditions was a huge factor. The latter is just English.

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

Reason 6,000,124 why we all hate Arsenal:

[City A.M. @CityAM]

In 23 months Labour has dragged the UK economy to its knees https://t.co/iS6dvZSrLS

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.

Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...

The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.

That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.

Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.

Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

[Ian Challis @IanChallis]

@thee_ovie Even their fans behind the goal during the penalties, none of that waving arms distracting nonsense.

[Jayden @cfjayden]

Bloody hell Gabriel mate

[Ian Challis @IanChallis]

@FBAwayDays Because the ref is asked to have a look if the VAR thinks he's made a mistake.

[MAH @matissearmani]

Madueke was fighting Palmer for penalty against Everton at 4-0 but didn’t step up before Gabriel in a Champions League Final HMMMMMMMMM.

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Arsenal have set the record for the lowest possession percentage for a team playing in a Champions League final (since records began in 2003-04).

The previous lowest record was also Arsenal, set in the 2006 Champions League final, which they played 72 minutes with 10 men.

[Ian Challis @IanChallis]

Delicious

[Mo @MoArsenal86]

Best club competition in the World and the referee has zero interest in being fair, what’s the point?

Blowing HT during a corner, giving every 50/50 in PSG favour, ignoring the blatant pen on Noni.

Disgusting.

[Felon82 @Felon82]

Never heard a commentary team suck off a club so hard for parking the bus and cheating

[StatMuse FC @statmusefc]

Arsenal penalties conceded this season:

3 in 15 UCL matches
0 in 38 PL matches

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🚨| Arsenal completed just (69) passes in the first half—the lowest total recorded (since 2003/04) by any team in a UEFA Champions League final.

{@Squawka}

[StatMuse FC @statmusefc]

Bukayo Saka in UCL final:

0 goals
0 assists
0 shots on target
0 chances created
0 big chances created
0 key passes
0 successful take-ons
0 accurate crosses

Cardio.

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

Bukayo Saka completed four passes, did not take a shot on goal & did not create a single chance in nearly 85 minutes of the Champions League Final before he was substituted.

[Ian Challis @IanChallis]

@WestHam_Central Club did what they could really. Everybody was given options and 'similar' views. Groups of people could move as groups.

Nevertheless, there's truth in the eventual outcome. 20k odd 'new' fans buying cheap tickets as something to do in a Saturday when they felt like it.

[Ian Challis @IanChallis]

@Macho_Grande1 If you're referring to me, I hope you get awful sun burn.

[Ian Challis @IanChallis]

@JackH_1906 If you sit there like a lemon you deserve it.

[Ian Challis @IanChallis]

@dshensmith @SaulStaniforth 'Trevor I don't think you understand'

Nothing could sum it all up more than that.

[Ian Challis @IanChallis]

@Miketyson2007 Congratulations to you both mate. Something to be very proud of.